Friday, November 30, 2012

I see no signs that society mistrusts science or engineering. I see society mistrusted big corporations, oil and nuke, governments, human greed, GMO, mass media and its unstoppable lies and propaganda, vested interests such as unions and old school business models.

But never have I seen the vaguest hint that science and engineering itself are mistrusted.

I'm interested in your response, would you trust nuclear if it was publicly-built and controlled, owned by the US, its scientists, and engineers in the DOE? Like a research lab? -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Interesting articles---

It seems a big part of the so called mistrust is based in a greater shift to a religious pack mentality.

Not a broad indictment of science, and in particular I didn't see engineering enter the equation at all.

Although people may think the travesties of the Gulf Oil spill and Fukushima to be engineering failures, but I think most people realize these are not engineering failures, but failures of greed and regulation, of captured regulatory bodies.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The numbers were a stark blow to high-school science teachers everywhere: forty-six per cent of adults said they believed that “God created humans in their present form within the last 10,000 years.”

Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/frontal-cortex/2012/06/brain-experiments-why-we-dont-believe-science.html#ixzz2Djx9WIBvI believe this goes more to a "retreat to the pack mentality" caused by the unbridled greed of the financial greatest theft on earth, drawings people into religion.Not necessarily a distrust of science and engineering.

The last article also indicates somehow its only the conservatives that have developed a distrust of science, and they seem to be a little crazier than most when it comes to stuff like abortion, creationism.

I wont ever trust nuclear again, as long as humans as part of the equation. Those who can't see this have their ego in the clouds and their heads in the sands.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

And all the players are fighting each other, suing each other, contradicting each other.....sure when something make no economic sense, that is what we should expect. Sheesh when a $200M plant like Kewaunee is shutting down for economics, why would a $14000M plant like Vogtle make any sense?

It doesn't------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From PowerGen Magazine

The addition of two new nuclear reactors at the Vogtle plant in eastern Georgia could be completed a year or more behind schedule say the lead contractors on the project, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Co. (NYSE: SO), disagreed with the contractors, The Shaw Group (NYSE: SHAW) and Westinghouse Electric Corp., insisting that a delay is not inevitable while conceding that any delay could lead to higher consumer utility bills. Georgia Power blames worker training, increased oversight and stiffer regulatory requirements for throwing the project off schedule, which the company expects could cost an additional $100 million.Westinghouse and the Shaw subsidiary are also suing Georgia Power and the co-owners of Vogtle for breach of contract due to additional construction costs. They say Georgia Power is responsible for at least half of the costs. The new reactors under construction at the Vogtle plant are the first new reactors built in the United States in three decades. Regulators are thus keeping a particularly scrutinizing eye on the project, Georgia Power said.

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The reality is that although nuke has some backup plans, they don't have good depth. And when the SHTF, they aren't ready, except with lies and excuses.

Even the Iodine pills....better than nothing, but maybe not. They do provide a false sense of security, because there are alot more isotopes emitted during the all too frequent nuclear disaster.

And Iodine only protect against one, the one that last the least time, 8 day halflife. People are told...if there is an accident take this pill and you will be protected.....sure thats a half lie....you will be protected against radioactive iodine. BUT NOTHING else.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------When an accident happens, and they are all too frequent, no one in government or the nuclear authority having jurisdiction is ready to deal with it. They weren't at Three Mile Island, they refused to evacuate people when it was obvious that they were taking "husky doses"!

And when it is time to decomission or do a cleanup of an all too frequent accident. They are not ready either. In fact, they are never ready.

At Fukushima, their cameras were fried by radiation. Their robots were fried by radiation, lots of them, many of them never even made the news. At Chernobyl, the rooftop was so radioactive with debris, that robots would not last at all, so they used Bio-bots, aka Humans. Their "lifetime" exposure time allowed was 45 seconds of work to run on the rooftop, grab some debris, and throw it over the edge and then run down the ladder to relative safety. Then you were "retired" for life. Except some guys went back 10 times....for 450 seconds of total work.

But at least at Chernobyl, they were real men. They did what had to be done. They did an amazing fight, and the death toll was high, and the disease toll was in the millions and still counting. In Japan, the "political correctness" makes it hard to do what needs to be done. Even some older engineer type volunteeredd to Kamikaze the job, although they wanted a real plan without senselessly throwing their lives away. Japan's pride wouldn't take that help, at least until now. Criminal nukers, methinks.

And now the robots....Fukushima is so deadly that robots are dying left and right.

Sickputer provide this info on ENENEWS, and here is the article by ENENEWS

"It is the second time such Japanese robotic technology has experienced problems. Last October, a crawling robot developed by the Chiba Institute of Technology lost connection with operators and was abandoned inside Fukushima's No. 2 reactor building."

SP: Poor Tepco…they not only deploy suicide robots, they are liars also. They have lost at least FIVE robots inside Units 2 and 3 at Fukushima Daiichi: Two made by Americans (Packbots) and three made by Chiba Institute of Technology.

RIP Quince 1 lost in Unit 2 June 2011:

"Quince 1 is still stranded in the Reactor 2 building, "for the moment", in much lower radiation, relatively speaking (10 millisieverts/hour where it sits)."

RIP Quince 2 (aka Survey Runner): "TEPCO announced on July 11 that the robot became inoperable [April 18, 2012] after it was sent to the Reactor 3 building basement at FUkushima I Nuclear Power Plant to measure radiation levels and take the video. The company said it would be difficult to retrieve the robot for the moment because of the high radiation levels."http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/07/robot-survey-runner-lost-in-high.html

Monday, November 12, 2012

It's always been obvious to me that forgetful, greedy, arrogant, irresponsible, selfish and delusional humans are simply incapable of harnessing and maintaining dangerous technology for lengthy periods of time.

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I think the Japanese government is going to tax the hell out of the economy regardless of if someone fixes it or not. Japan was already in what most countries consider dire financial straits before 3/11. Now they have to come up with billions from somewhere to put a band-aid on the entire mess. The Japanese should look into using some creative euphemisms for new taxes like "user fees" or "administrative fees" they can look to the US for examples. There was a day long ago when most US federal parks were free now most have a "users fee" titling a car just a few years ago was $12.50 today it cost $100 or more. Cleaning up a reactor mess doesn't grow your economy just ask the USSR. The Russians were lucky because they went bust and dumped the problem on their former nation states. Maybe Japan should turn some of the Tohoku region into an autonomous state so they can abandon it to the world like the Russians did with Chernobyl.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

In the near future we may see some serious problems. If you are spending your time on basic items, without a pot to piss in, like the thousands of people after Sandy that had no preparations, then you will be in much worse shape.

There will also be plenty of opportunities for advancement, and if you have your basic needs covered, then you will be able to jump on those opportunities.

With inflation and a worldwide push to competitive devaluation of all paper currencies, anything you buy now will likely just be more expensive later, so this is not wasting money. Turn paper assets in to hard assets. Have a good laugh as you hand someone paper and they hand you back a valuable object. Hilarious!

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Some of his work (I assume he is a he, just seems like a he, but no offense if a she) is amazingly good, and strikes to the point. Here is one of them.

The Lies of Nuclear meet the Dreams of Children

You realise you are not alone:this must for others be as true;that more than you live in despairfor what they can't undo.But there are other childrenin desparate circumstanceand if you act you may secureif but for one, a chance,and if two join, or three can act as one,you may prevent one more child's lifefrom being as undone,and if all those who know a childand love or have been lovedwill act for the most precioustheir futures to improve,much threat of death and miseryfrom young lives can be removed.

And so in pre-dawn grayness an inner light ignitesthat can no more be extinguishedthan the Sun or Human Rights,when one by one the many comeunderstanding to the fightyou can rip away vast Evil's facethough it holds you by the throatand expose the lies of Nuclearbefore all Life it smotes.

If you read this, they are venting tritium from the Klunker plant Palisades in Michigan.

Also rejoice that solar and nat gas killed the Kewaunee plant on the other side of Lake Michigan, now they plant to store 1,000,000 pounds of the spent fuel right on the Lake shore…nothing like trying to kill a great lake, we could then call it the Great Plutonium lake

Express your opinion to governor Walker at this link, and consider klik to adz too, thanks!

Monday, November 5, 2012

I’m saddened, but certainly not surprised. The forces of evil that are determined to make nuclear energy uneconomical are currently stronger than those of us who are determined to ensure that the world’s current and future population has a viable, clean, abundant and reliable alternative to burning the earth’s stored hydrocarbon wealth as quickly as possible.

In sketch SK-1 below we see that the radiation leaving the body and not absorbed by the body is only about 17% of the total.

And in SK-2 we see that on the average Queen Size bed geometry that the transmitted dose to Body 2 is at most 6.9% of the leaving radiation from Body 1.

So if the Body 1 total annual internal dose is 0.3mSv * 17% * 6.9% = .0035mSv per year if sleeping together 24/7, so lets say 8 hours per day, or 1/2 of that or

0.001167 mSv per year -- Calculated by the Nuke Procompared to 7.3 mSv as promoted by a nuclear promoter.

This is a "lying factor" of 625500%

So we have proven that nuclear promoters lie by over 6000 times the real value. LOL, I hear the TEPCO is looking for some "Data Communicators", the job lasts a long time!

0.001167 mSv is really negligible in the overall scheme of things, you can get off the couch and go back to the bed and rest easy. LOL. And go Troll Jousting, when you hear the lies of Nuke, just point them to a link at the Nuke Pro.

Here is some more reason not to worry about your own internal radiation, and TO WORRY about the external radiation sources that the medical and nuclear cartel are willing to expose you to.

The neat thing about potassium is that is spreads evenly through the body, only about 1 in 10,000 is the radioactive type, and it takes 1.3 billion year for HALF of them to "go off". What this means is that even though it is well spread throughout the body, each particular "go off" aka an ionization hits one isolated cell structure if any at all. The body has developed over a huge long time to be ability fix much of this "one shot" internal radiation. It has to do with repairing strand breaks caused by the ionization. The body is pretty good at repairing a single strand break and nothing much too weird happens.

Now consider the effects of a Mixed Martial Arts fighter doing damage to the same victim at close range and repeatedly.....enter the "Hot particle"

Now when a "hot particle" get into the lungs or guts (think cesium and strontium) they can pack a much more powerful punch, and when they lodge or become part of the body structure, they can continually damage the same cellular structures, causing double strand breaks. The body tries to repair them. Now consider a double double strand break that get repaired incorrectly. Horrors.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And thus the big difference between the naturally occurring Potassium, and "foreign" radiation.

Beta will travel a few feet through air, and a centimeter or two into flesh or water.

Also the NRC published a pie chart in their article here, which I debunk --- they start lying right out of the gate, right at the baseline their pile their lies high.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Dominion Resources owns this clunker. They tried to sell it and there were no buyers. The strong solar programs in Wisconsin (indeed!) and natural gas are just way cheaper than nuke.

Also buyers are getting alot more aware of what they are buying. When they sell off these clunkers, they also include a gift that keeps on giving, spent fuel pools. In Michigan, they sold a clucker plant, and also forced the buyer to take over a spent fuel pool at a completely different location. But that was before Fukushima, that was before the Nuke Pro and ENENEWS started educating the public on how dangerous the nuke Cartel is.

Even at Kewaunee they won't really decommission the plant, because a real decommission would cost $1B to $2B. Instead they store the used fuel on site, and then let the plant decay for 60 years. It is subject to extreme damage and neglect in those 60 years, picture a tornado ripping through a crumbling clunker plant.

It is the first of 104 plants in the US to close down. Congratulations to Wisconsin, leading the Pack!

The big problem with these plants is not that 1% of them blow up, but the long lasting problem of the spent fuel. The used fuel turns into all sorts of nastiness, including plutonium which is one of the worst things man could ever conjure up.

They keep the most dangerous thing on earth (spent fuel) right next to the second most dangerous thing on earth….the reactors.

At Kewaunee, they plan on storing ALL the spent fuel the plant has ever produced, 500 yards away from Lake Michigan, for 60 to 120 years. It has to be carefully stored, cooled and separated, or it can re-erupt in a nuclear fire that would disperse all of the nastiness. Think a monster tornado or a terrorist attack as simple as a backpack full of plastic explosives. They say they will have security “for forever”, however just this year a 82 year old nun sneaked into a nuke storage site and stayed there for a day undetected. So much for security.

Or if that spent fuel got into the Lake….that would be the end of Lake Michigan and all the cities on the lake. Not likely, but still, accepting this kind of danger is pretty close to insanity.

Contact Gov. Walker, and get them to move that spent fuel shit to somewhere very remote and not by water resources.

Saturday, November 3, 2012

“The clock ran out on French nuclear expansion plans in the U.S.,” declared Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear. “The electric companies have lost their appetite for exorbitantly expensive and increasingly risky atomic power. The new reactor fiasco is over in Maryland.”